I was one of the fortunate ones: As a TV critic, I had the pleasure of having what amounts to a front-row seat to the hilarity that was Robin Williams — not just once but several times. His most recent press sessions were for his CBS comedy, “The Crazy Ones.” At those Q&A’s, Williams not […]
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SAN ANTONIO — As you would expect, the national media has been all over the Spurs’ historic hire: six-time WNBA All-Star Becky Hammon, who became the NBA’s first full-time female coach. Two notable television treatments of the story happened on CBS and ESPN. Recaps: “SportsNation’s” lively trio on ESPN — Max Kellerman, Marcellus Wiley and […]
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Will the “Big Bang” blow up in CBS’ face? Unbelievably, the central stars of the most successful comedy on television — San Antonio viewers sure flock to it — have yet to sign contracts. And it’s a mere two weeks until “The Big Bang Theory” goes into fall production. Not to […]
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SAN ANTONIO — You know the world is finally starting to recognize the San Antonio Spurs as the standard for greatness when a Hollywood star uses the team in a comparison that has nothing to do with basketball. It happened at the recent premiere for the upcoming CBS sci-fi series from Steven Spielberg, “Extant,” at […]
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A new season of “Big Brother” is upon us and San Antonio is represented once again. For the first time in the CBS reality show’s history, the Alamo City’s contestant is a guy — Devin Shepherd — a big, brawny hunk with a killer smile who gets compared at every turn to Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. […]
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SAN ANTONIO — It was great seeing Tim Duncan, who’s known to be more poker-faced than full of personality, laughing, joking and getting ribbed a bit by David Letterman on the CBS late show Tuesday night. The five-time NBA champ spoke about his decision to keep going with the Spurs “at least one more year,” […]
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SAN ANTONIO — Spurs five-time NBA champ Tim Duncan looked relaxed and happy during the taping of tonight’s “Late Show with David Letterman.” He spoke of continuing with the Spurs and having some good basketball still in him, and what he might do if he ever hangs up his jersey. Dave also inserted a fun […]
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As if there weren’t already enough about “CBS This Morning” host Norah O’Donnell to make her hometown of San Antonio proud. . . The MacArthur grad, former cheerleader and crack network news reporter recently scored a sit-down at the White House with President Obama that is slated to run in full on “This Morning” Monday. […]
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Spurs forward Tim Duncan, a little more than a week after nabbing his fifth NBA championship ring, will be featured on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” CBS confirmed the guest shot would be Tuesday. Locally, Letterman airs on KENS-TV at 10:35 p.m. As far as I can recall, it’s only Duncan’s second major late-night […]
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Yes, David Letterman, the last of our veteran late-night hosts, is retiring — but not before he featured both S.A. anchorman Randy Beamer and a fun jab at the local Bigfoot hoax. For more on the con by showman Rick Dyer, who had claimed he shot the creature in the Alamo City, read the most […]
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